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Recycling and Extended Producer Responsibility
An overriding value of European legislation on waste management is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle. For example, all economic operators placing packaging onto the EU market are responsible for its proper management and recovery. However, in general, the collection and treatment of urban waste is the responsibility of local authorities. It has therefore been necessary to establish a system of financial compensations between producers and waste management operators. Analysing the legal and institutional schemes of several member states and accounting for all the costs and benefits to their local authorities due to selective collection and sorting, this book provides an acc...
The Act of Living
The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparent...
Waste Is Information
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects. Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we know about the distant past we know from discarded objects unearthed by archaeologists and interpreted by historians. And yet the systems and infrastructures that process our waste often remain opaque. In this book, Dietmar Offenhuber examines waste from the perspective of information, considering emerging practices and technologies for making waste systems legible and how the resulting datasets and visual...
Radical Technologies
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future. We already depend on the smartphone to navigate every aspect of our existence. We’re told that innovations—from augmented-reality interfaces and virtual assistants to autonomous delivery drones and self-driving cars—will make life easier, ...
Growth for Good
The current model of economic expansion driven by fossil fuels is unsustainable, leading many to toy with the idea of ditching growth to save the planet. But, as Alessio Terzi argues, a post-growth world would be prone to catastrophes no less serious than climate change itself. Luckily, with the right policies, growth can be made earth-friendly.
Embattled Europe
Peaceful Revolution -- Post-Communist Transformation -- European Integration -- Sovereign Debt Debacle -- Migration Wave -- Brexit Self-Destruction -- Economic Competitiveness -- Restructured Welfare State -- Protected Environment -- Defense Disagreements -- Populist Backlash -- Global Role.
Portugal de perto
Em início de 2008, ao fim de mais de 20 anos de jornalismo, Nuno Ferreira decidiu finalmente colocar em prática um sonho antigo: atravessar o seu próprio país a pé, pelos interiores mais recônditos, de Sagres a Cevide, no ponto mais a norte de Portugal continental. Das planícies amarelas do Alentejo às mais esconsas aldeias das serras do norte, o jornalista foi encontrando o que resta de um país outrora rural, hoje esvaziado em grande parte pela demanda das cidades, vilas e estrangeiro. O Portugal de Nuno Ferreira é um território onde a beleza natural de algumas das mais impolutas paisagens da Europa contrasta com o abandono a que são votadas pelo poder central. A viagem leva o repórter a confrontar-se com os efeitos da desertificação na vivência quotidiana das populações. Encontrou medo e desconfiança mas também histórias de resiliência e sobrevivência em lugares perdidos no mapa onde a cultura popular de gerações resiste nas mãos de um punhado de resistentes.
The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government
Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions are crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in theexercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, and meritocracy instead of patronage and nepotism in the hiring of public sector employees.This handbook offer a comprehensive, state of the art overview of this rapidly expanding research field and also identifies viable avenues for future research. The initial chapters focus on theoretical approach...
Chamo-me Nuno e Sou Alcoólico
Este é o relato na primeira pessoa de um homem – jornalista de profissão, pai de dois filhos, viajante e melómano – que caiu na armadilha da dependência do álcool e viu o seu mundo desmoronar-se lentamente. Uma história semelhante a muitas outras que, todos os dias, destroem vidas e famílias sob a capa da vergonha, da culpa e do silêncio, mas que, ao contrário dessas, é trazida a público pela coragem e autenticidade do seu protagonista: o jornalista Nuno Ferreira. Sem filtros nem lugar para a autocomiseração, Chamo-me Nuno e Sou Alcoólico é, simultaneamente, um murro no estômago, uma manifestação de força e um comovente sinal de esperança para todos aqueles que, directa ou indirectamente, sentiram na pele o flagelo das adições.
